NAME
traceroute - print the route packets take to network host
SYNOPSIS
traceroute [-m max_ttl] [-n] [-p port] [-q nqueries] [-r] [-s src_addr]
[-t tos] [-w waittime] host [packetsize]
DESCRIPTION
The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware, con-
nected together by gateways. Tracking the route one's packets follow (or
finding the miscreant gateway that's discarding your packets) can be dif-
ficult. Traceroute utilizes the IP protocol `time to live' field and
attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along
the path to some host.